Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: decisisve moment question on PAW ?
From: Pablo Kolodny <pablokolodny@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:37:35 -0300

B. D. Colen wrote:

> Okay - Time to be blunt.:-0 (As we all know, we post photos asking for
> honest comment and criticism)- (Sorry, Rob)
> 
> This is not a "GOOD" photo. It is not, by any stretch of the imagination an
> HCB "decisive moment." And it certainly isn't an FOM photo - I, II, or C. It
> is an improperly exposed party snap. Period. As Ted pointed out, the light
> from the flash is dumped onto the foreground, blowing out the light colored
> items and leaving both the woman and the man underexposed. All the photo
> tells us is that the man isn't feeling well - one assumes he's drunk - or is
> very tired, and the woman is looking at a little flag, or is waving it. So
> what? We don't see anything in the photo indicating that it has anything to
> do with soccer, the World Cup, the Invasion of the Faulklands, or the
> election of Margaret Thatcher. Nothing, in other words, to give it any kind
> of context or meaning. If one knew these two people, this would be the kind
> of moderately amusing photo one might hand them as a 60 Minute 4x6,
> expecting them to titter in embarrassment as they tore it in half.
> 
> B. D.

today we found an inspired BD...
and, on the other side, let me say I gladly agreed with Ted too.
don't know if the first and hope it is not the last one.

Pablo 
anti flash dept.


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